Joe Romm is highlighting this extraordinary assertion from Robert Brulle, a prominent academic who writes often about environmental affairs: By failing to even rhetorically address climate change, Obama is mortgaging our future and further delaying the necessary work to build a political consensus for real action. This broadside follows on the heels of the State…Continue Reading…
I see there’s a climate confab happening in Lisbon (I never got my invite). Something about reconciliation. I also see that the fate of the free world hangs on this meeting: The very survival of our democratic form of government is at stake…Climategate is our wake-up call: We are on the slippery slope that leads…Continue Reading…
It has to be tough for climate hawks today, as the unmistakable truth of their abandonment by President Obama sinks in. As a longtime Blues fan, I can appreciate their pain and want to do what I can to ease their suffering. But first, I ask my fellow New Yorkers and fellow Blues fanatics to…Continue Reading…
If presidential State of the Union addresses are a political barometer of sorts, then check this out for historical perspective: Here’s President Clinton in 1998 Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action. The vast majority of scientists have concluded unequivocally that…Continue Reading…
Well, that’s not happening anytime soon. But the wonks at the Center for a New American Security who write about energy and climate change issues have devised their own drinking game for tonight’s State of the Union Address. And they surely wouldn’t mind getting wasted: Rule #6: If the President deploys the words “climate change,”…Continue Reading…
So I’m curious to hear what climate skeptics think of James Delingpole’s shocking admission that he doesn’t have time to read peer reviewed climate science papers. (I think he said this with a straight face, too.) Delingpole said he relies instead on the “peer to peer” review that happens everyday on climate blogs. Well, no…Continue Reading…
It’s the bridge that everyone seems eager to build, from the oil & gas industry and Texas high-roller Slim Pickens to liberal think tanks and brainy MIT experts. Yes, I’m talking about that dreamy natural gas bridge to a “low-carbon future.” Hold on a minute, reports Pro Publica, or you might get a serious case…Continue Reading…
In 2003, Christine Todd Whitman resigned as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She lasted two years. In the Washington Post, a top EPA official–who had resigned a year earlier–lamented: Christine Todd Whitman’s tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ended last month much the way it began, amid controversy over the Bush administration’s…Continue Reading…
Michael Klare sees a bad moon rising. I hope you got your things together:
What a difference a year makes. Here’s Diane Sawyer on ABC News nearly one year ago, reporting on the connection between global warming and record snowfall: Here’s Sawyer on Friday, reporting on the connection between global warming and the “extreme winter” much of the nation is experiencing: The only difference I can tell is that…Continue Reading…